{"id":131,"date":"2021-10-14T14:35:17","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T14:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ouritsource.com\/blog\/?p=131"},"modified":"2021-10-15T17:25:34","modified_gmt":"2021-10-15T17:25:34","slug":"powershell-cheat-sheet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ouritsource.com\/blog\/powershell-cheat-sheet\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerShell Cheat Sheet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Command name<\/th>	Alias<\/th>	Description<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
Set-Location<\/td>	cd, chdir, sl<\/td>	Sets the current working location to a specified location.<\/td><\/tr>
Get-Content<\/td>	cat, gc, type<\/td>	Gets the content of the item at the specified location.<\/td><\/tr>
Add-Content<\/td>	ac<\/td>	Adds content to the specified items, such as adding words to a file.<\/td><\/tr>
Set-Content<\/td>	sc<\/td>	Writes or replaces the content in an item with new content.<\/td><\/tr>
Copy-Item<\/td>	copy, cp, cpi<\/td>	Copies an item from one location to another.<\/td><\/tr>
Remove-Item<\/td>	del, erase, rd, ri, rm, rmdir<\/td>	Deletes the specified items.<\/td><\/tr>
Move-Item<\/td>	mi, move, mv<\/td>	Moves an item from one location to another.<\/td><\/tr>
Set-Item<\/td>	si<\/td>	Changes the value of an item to the value specified in the command.<\/td><\/tr>
New-Item<\/td>	ni<\/td>	Creates a new item.<\/td><\/tr>
Start-Job<\/td>	sajb<\/td>	Starts a Windows PowerShell background job.<\/td><\/tr>
Compare-Object<\/td>	compare, dif<\/td>	Compares two sets of objects.<\/td><\/tr>
Group-Object<\/td>	group<\/td>	Groups objects that contain the same value for specified properties.<\/td><\/tr>
Invoke-WebRequest<\/td>	curl, iwr, wget<\/td>	Gets content from a web page on the Internet.<\/td><\/tr>
Measure-Object<\/td>	measure<\/td>	Calculates the numeric properties of objects, and the characters, words, and lines in string objects, such as files \u2026<\/td><\/tr>
Resolve-Path<\/td>	rvpa<\/td>	Resolves the wildcard characters in a path, and displays the path contents.<\/td><\/tr>
Resume-Job<\/td>	rujb<\/td>	Restarts a suspended job<\/td><\/tr>
Set-Variable<\/td>	set, sv<\/td>	Sets the value of a variable. Creates the variable if one with the requested name does not exist.<\/td><\/tr>
Show-Command<\/td>	shcm<\/td>	Creates Windows PowerShell commands in a graphical command window.<\/td><\/tr>
Sort-Object<\/td>	sort<\/td>	Sorts objects by property values.<\/td><\/tr>
Start-Service<\/td>	sasv<\/td>	Starts one or more stopped services.<\/td><\/tr>
Start-Process<\/td>	saps, start<\/td>	Starts one or more processes on the local computer.<\/td><\/tr>
Suspend-Job<\/td>	sujb<\/td>	Temporarily stops workflow jobs.<\/td><\/tr>
Wait-Job<\/td>	wjb<\/td>	Suppresses the command prompt until one or all of the Windows PowerShell background jobs running in the session are \u2026<\/td><\/tr>
Where-Object<\/td>	?, where<\/td>	Selects objects from a collection based on their property values.<\/td><\/tr>
Write-Output<\/td>	echo, write<\/td>	Sends the specified objects to the next command in the pipeline. If the command is the last command in the pipeline,\u2026<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n To run a powershell script from a command line, the powershell script should have a PS1 exrtension such as myscript.ps1. <\/em>Then from the command line, one would enter the PS <\/strong>command, followed by the file. For example: PS c:\\users\\me\\desktop\\myscript.ps1<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Reference:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Command name Alias Description Set-Location cd, chdir, sl Sets the current working location to a specified location. Get-Content cat, gc, type Gets the content of the item at the specified location. Add-Content…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows-powershell","no-thumbnail"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ouritsource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ouritsource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ouritsource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ouritsource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ouritsource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ouritsource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134,"href":"https:\/\/ouritsource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions\/134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ouritsource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ouritsource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ouritsource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}